Current postcards hanging on the “string of honor” – (also stereo speaker cable) filled up so needs to be archived into dossier soon / It’s an incredibly pleasurable experience curating and archiving but also just receiving and enjoying.
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Amongst postcards rec’d:
This one of – now mysteriously towed to open water and sunk – legendary floating restaurant “Jumbo” in Hong Kong.
I wonder if the sender knows of the important life lessons I learned at this very place (when it was floating of course)? #trust #crash
Since I’m here:
A postcard received from Gifu, Japan depicting a drive-in theater in Vernon, BC, Canada (with notes on the back with which movies were viewed there in decades past)
The name “Skyway” reminds me of a wonderful song by The Replacements
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A beautiful card and letter with poetic flourish and a stunning Portugal street-car / tram, in reflection.
Came from an obvious sweet soul – another Artist dealing with the same absurd medical conundrum as me and millions other #MECFS
We connected through art (I won his collage in a fundraiser auction) and have sparked a correspondence – using Portuguese and English via machine translation – to share encouragement, grief, inspiration, frustration and of course, creativity across oceans and continents.
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Mailed a bundle of six postcards to Quebec, Utah, BC, New Jersey, Virginia Beach something something.
Somehow I didn’t take a photo so you’re going to have to believe me.
I mean every payphone is special just this one isn’t more special than any other
Also mailed from Shiroshita P.O. rather than my local Shinogoze – In lieu of a photo of postcards or the post office (where the staff were bemused to see a dashingly handsome / quirky foreign fella insisting on choosing just the right stamps) here’s a payphone – nothing “special” or significant, just in front of a convenience store I stopped into, probably for an egg salad sandwich with the crust cut off
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Four more photo “installations” or well, just photos, including:
1. Collection of BC Invasion Postcards
Find a headshroud from Dubai or Jordan, I get them confused
2. Collage of Ryoko and Ichiro passport photos (I took with me traveling so I could feel like they were with me)
Don’t mind the radio antenna
3) Ichiro’s 100 day photo – same day as the “time traveler” photo shoot – & recent preschool book (made by the teachers)
He’s an extremely well-documented young fella
4) Ryoko’s band photo (printed and framed as birthday present from my photo & design)
What a lovely gift from her bandmates
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Also by post… So many glorious stamps from Canada including celebrating Eid/Aid plus a solstice of some kind and some lovely flowers.
Came from Jerry the race car driver/entrepreneur/agent/longevity researcher etc.
Within is a book in which I provided a “blurb”… Deserves some more coverage but I’ll get to it another time
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Oh, I spotted this sweet tape dispenser at a doctor’s office
OldManVoice “they don’t make them like that anymore”
It’s just such stationery beauty in utility
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took me a minute but finally properly signed up for @postcrossing as “daveo”
I send loads of #postcards as it is, let’s send even more, right? :)
